Improvement in harness-saddle pads



w. THOMPSON. HARNESS-SADDLE PAD.

Patented Feb. 20, 18- 17.

BIO-187,568.

NPETERS. FHOTO-LITHOGQAPHER. WASH INGkOH. D. C.

UNITE STATES PATENT FFICE.

WILLIAM THOMPSON, 0F MATTEAWAN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARNESS-SADDLE PADS- Specilication forming part-ofLetters Patent No. I 87,568, dated February 20, 1877.; application filedAugust 7, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM THOMPSON, ofMatteawan, in the county of Dutchess, in the State of New York, havemade certain Improvements in Pads for Harness-Saddles, of which thefollowing is a specification:

The invention consists in a molded pad of sponge-rubber, vulcanized onthe outside, as will be fully hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents the 'pad secured to the saddle;Fig. 2, a top view .T he vulcanization of the sponge-rubber on theoutside, which is accomplished by any of the known processes, preventsany moisture from penetrating the interior or sponge portion of the pad;hence the pad is not only impervious, but very elastic or yielding, andtapering to a thin flexible lower or outer end, A, so that it will.yield to the form of the back of the horse, whether the horses back beangular or curved in form, poor in flesh or fat, and supports the skirtsof the saddle from breaking or cracking at the lower extremity thereof.It is formed in molds differing in size, each size to be known by adefinite number, to correspond with the size number of the saddle-treesin the market.

The harness-maker has no labor to perform in stuffing the pads when thismolded pad is used, as the pad is affixed by inclosing it in a covering,end attaching the covering to the saddle in the ordinary way.

This molded pad is, from its spongy nature, very easy on the hack of thehorse, is "ery durable, and not expensive, as the molded article islight an account of its porosity, and as a new article of manufacturewould supply a want that has long existed in the manulacture ot' padsstuffed with hair, cork, chiprnbber, or other substances commonly usedin stuffing the pads, and, being formed to fit thes'addle-treeperfectly, they cannot get out of place.

- Having thus described my invention, what I claim isr r A moldedharness-pad, the body of which is sponge-rubber covered. by a thin filmor coatin g of vulcanized rubber, substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

' \VILLIAM THOMPSON.

Witnesses:

J .D. WEBB, O. H. Rows.

